Who Back When | A Doctor Who Podcast
470 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsThere are hundreds of Doctor Who episodes and stories out there and we intend to watch them all! Not just that – We’ll watch, review, discuss, debate, rate and praise and/or poke holes in every episode of Doctor Who, starting with the 1963 pilot. That’s right; we’re beginning with William Hartnell and then working our way forward through time, episode by episode and Doctor by Doctor. In parallel, we’re also reviewing New Who, starting with Eccleston in the 2005 revival. At the time of writing this, we’re already well into the Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi eras! From comparing Dalek and Cybermen military strategems to ranking companions by hairstyle, we’ve got it covered.
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Episodes
B097 Series 14 (Season 1) Predictions and Bants
April 14, 2024 16:57 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBWith the new season steadily approaching, we discuss our predictions, hopes and fears
N179 The Church on Ruby Road — The 2023 Christmas Special
February 25, 2024 07:00 - 2 hours - 71.8 MBInter-temporal infanticide and a divisive song-and-dance number? We spend more than twice its runtime dissecting The Fifteenth Doctor's first big adventure.
B096 The Fourteenth Doctor Retrospective
February 04, 2024 09:10 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBTennant is back, inexplicably yet fabulously, prompting a customary, cocktail-fuelled retrospective
N178 The Giggle
January 21, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 66 MBThe Toymaker temporarily relinquishes his confounding mock-German accent while lip-syncing to Spice Girls in Stark Tower for the conclusion of the 60th Anniversary Specials
N177 Wild Blue Yonder
January 14, 2024 21:43 - 2 hours - 70.2 MBDnD return for Midnight 2.0 in perhaps the most corridory episode of Doctor Who
B095 The 2023 New Year’s Eve Bloops
December 31, 2023 18:31 - 9 minutes - 6.18 MBHappy New Year! Here's a glimpse at some of the bits that didn’t go quite as planned
N176 The Star Beast
December 16, 2023 00:22 - 2 hours - 72.7 MBMad Paddington interrupts a tuna madras and Doc is rubbish at keeping a secret
B094 The Who Back When Retrospective, Part 2
November 19, 2023 14:23 - 1 hour - 53 MBWe're joined by legendary Whovian, jD, as we continue our trip down that temporal road
B093 The Who Back When Retrospective, Part 1
November 06, 2023 00:09 - 1 hour - 56 MBJoin us as we reflect on a ten-year trip down that temporal road
B092 The Thirteenth Doctor Retrospective
October 22, 2023 12:21 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBA deep-dive into the successes (and failures) of a Doctor, a show runner and an era of Doctor Who.
N175 The Power of The Doctor (re-review)
October 15, 2023 12:37 - 2 hours - 69.8 MBIt's the end of an era as Doc is joined by old friends and selves to save the world one last time before she regenerates
B091 The Unofficial Anniversary Specials
October 01, 2023 07:30 - 1 hour - 40 MBTwo wildly different milestone stories, neither canonical, one rather pants, the other quite amazing. All right, here we go!
A033 Doctor Who: Redacted
September 24, 2023 18:29 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBWe’re thrilled to learn that Doc herself listens to Doctor Who podcasts!
B090 The Eighth Doctor Retrospective
September 10, 2023 21:40 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBJoin us for an evening of discussing, debating and flat-out fawning over the utterly sensational Eighth Doctor
C160 Doctor Who: The Movie
August 27, 2023 15:01 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBDoctor Who regenerates into a one-off on the little big screen and heads across the pond in our very last Classic Who review
N174 Legend of the Sea Devils — The 2022 Easter Special
August 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBCountless plot holes, and two wasted historicals land this not-so-Special somewhere in the bottom-two of the Whittaker era
B089 The Seventh Doctor Retrospective
August 06, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBHaving reviewed all the the Classic TV serials, we sit down with cocktails and a guest expert for a look back on the tragically brief Seeeeventh Doctor Era.
N173 Eve of the Daleks — The 2022 New Year’s Day Special (re-review)
July 23, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBHappy New Year, Whittaker era! And how better to celebrate than with beefy beans and countless countdowns?
C159 Survival
July 09, 2023 14:42 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThe Master channels Salem to recruit a Rex Kwon Do class as human catnip. Dear God, Ace, get some actual friends!
B088 Tenth (10th!!) Anniversary Bloopers
July 04, 2023 21:13 - 14 minutes - 8.95 MBSweet Buttery Kablammos, we've been DocPasting for a decade!!!
N172 The Vanquishers (Flux, part 6)
June 26, 2023 10:24 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBThree Doctors, Time personified, and the undoing of pretty much every single character arc this season
C158 The Curse of Fenric
June 18, 2023 14:21 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBZompires, Nicholas Parsons, and the most awkward seduction in Classic Doctor Who
N171 Survivors of the Flux (Flux, part 5)
June 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThe Mummy Returns, The Serpent is the Plain Foe, and Indiyaza Jones and the Candle of Tomb
C157 Ghost Light
June 04, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour - 57 MBAn evolution-crazed diorama fan with a Neanderthal butler plots to take over the British Empire from his haunted mansion. And, wait, Ace was an arsonist?!
C156 Battlefield
May 21, 2023 13:23 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBInter-dimensional Arthurian warfare, helicopter ear sanitation and a demon's wet mouth
N170 Village of the Angels (Flux, part 4)
May 14, 2023 10:52 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBNot wholly sensical, but probably the best use of Weeping Angels since Blink!
C155 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
May 07, 2023 13:21 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBDoc and Ace appear on Ragnarok’s Got Talent and allegedly it's an allegory of Doctor Who itself
N169 Once, Upon Time (Flux, part 3)
April 30, 2023 13:57 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBA temporal clip show that leaves a good few questions unanswered
C154 Silver Nemesis
April 23, 2023 06:30 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBLes Visiteurs meets The Boys in Brazil with Cybermen and archery
N168 War of the Sontarans (Flux, part 2)
April 09, 2023 07:10 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBA pluri-temporal tater invasion splinters the fam across history while the baddies provide time stream tech support
C153 The Happiness Patrol
April 02, 2023 13:14 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBMargaret Thatcher’s husband runs away with the baker’s apprentice and the indigenous species receives zero reparations
N167 The Halloween Apocalypse (Flux, part 1 – re-review)
March 26, 2023 11:43 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBAll in all, yeah, a pretty promising thrill-ride season opener
C152 Remembrance of the Daleks
March 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBDoc Fluxes Skaro in the final Dalek story of Classic Who
N166 Revolution of the Daleks — The 2021 New Year’s Special (re-review)
March 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBAfter Captain Jack breaks Doc out of not-Shada, they team up with the Scoobies for one last adventure as a fam
C151 Dragonfire
March 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThe 3,000-year-old supervisor of a shopping mall uses a hypnosis doubloon to recruit henchmen in a serial that channels iconic moments from 80s cinema.
N165 The Timeless Children
February 26, 2023 07:30 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBDoctor Who is Redacted and we're told Doc was The Chosen One all along
C150 Delta and the Bannermen
February 19, 2023 13:18 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBA monarch fleeing genocide hides among alien tourists at a Welsh Butlin's where no one reacts to her green baby
N164 Ascension of the Cybermen
February 12, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MBDoc ditches the fam at the end of the Cyber Wars and Irish Moses grows up to be the village super cop
C149 Paradise Towers
February 05, 2023 21:47 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBDoc and Mel B dodge senior citizen cannibals and team up with colour-coded girl gangs against the fascists standing in their way of a swimming pool
N163 The Haunting Of Villa Diodati
January 29, 2023 15:19 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBA chilling new nemesis in search of a firmware upgrade terrorises a literary coterie at the absolute zenith of its creativity
C148 Time and The Rani
January 22, 2023 14:24 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThe Rani implements a convoluted stratagem and the Seventh Doctor skips over plot holes in his debut serial
N162 Can You Hear Me?
January 15, 2023 12:52 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBWell, we would if you’d stop fingering our ears, buddy.
B087 The Sixth Doctor Retrospective
January 14, 2023 17:16 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBA heartfelt look back at the highs and lows of the fabulous Colin Baker’s run as The Sixth Doctor
B086 The 2023 New Year’s Bloopers
January 01, 2023 09:30 - 16 minutes - 10.1 MBHappy New Year, Podcastland! OMG, it’s 2023, the year we catch up!
N161 Praxeus
December 18, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 48 MBVloggers neither mourn nor vlog in this well-intentioned eco-piece. Also, why would you camp in a tip?!
C147 The Ultimate Foe (Trial of a Time Lord: Part Four)
December 11, 2022 18:12 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBThe Valeyard's true identity revealed, a surprise Master appearance, and a trial finale that would not hold up in court
C146 Terror of the Vervoids (Trial of a Time Lord: Part Three)
December 04, 2022 20:52 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBA WHO-dunnit with provocative space plants that flounders a little in the mystery department
N160 Fugitive of the Judoon
November 27, 2022 13:04 - 1 hour - 42 MBApparently there's just one place in all of Gloucester that sells coffee
C145 Mindwarp (Trial of a Time Lord: Part Two)
November 20, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBEntirely different mind transplant technologies and Chekhov's waisted stinger
N159 Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror
November 13, 2022 14:55 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBAn incomprehensible train sequence and, erm... So, Tesla has a working death ray now?